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That call killed the game. We'd have won if the umpire didn't overturn that.

Is Langdon any chance of ever contesting an aerial ball?

This is the Collingwood QF all over again. Dominate the second half in inside 50s. Bad kicking.

I feel like we've been the better team in the second half so far. Those two goals to start the third and their first to start the last have basically ended the game now.

I swear Carlton doesn't even look that good. They are just winning the moments and the ball is going their way.

Classic Langdon undercooking a shot on goal at a pivotal moment.

Classic Langdon undercooking a shot on goal at a pivotal moment.

one or two more to end the quarter.

Melbourne stop drafting St Kilda reject challenge.

this is pathetic. our forward craft is so bad. it has been all year.

Yeah this isn't Carlton playing well. We are ball watching.

Mckay, Pittonet and Dekonning all with goals in wet conditions. You can't excuse. You just can't. Carlton have barely gotten out of second gear. That was a clinic in wet weather football.

Nah, not good enough. We are going forward and the ball is being contested and dropped to the ground where Blues are mopping it up. Zero pressure. We miss Spargo in games like this. Very very poor.

Carlton is seriously average but we look worse tonight.

You can track it all back to when Melbourne was the envy of the league in the 60s. Working class supporters in Collingwood, Richmond, in the West, South East etc used to despise the "toffs" of Melbourne. Some in the media would have been brought up to have a lingering bitterness aimed at Melbourne. Where Collingwood and Carlton supporters genuinely hate each other and have a genuine rivalry, Melbourne is hated by those same supporters purely in a historically class-divided sense. It's a sort of "eat the rich" narrative. It's less directed at the club itself and more at what the club symbolises which traditionally has been the, shall we say, more fortuate suppoer demographics. Love or hate him it's very important we have the likes of Gary Lyon to flex for us.

The conversation is aimed at the wrong direction in my view. It's aiming a feel good fantasy goal of all men all of a sudden never ever physically assaulting a woman. It's simplistic. There are a few layers. I actually don't think education cuts it because the household dynamics are so unpredictable. 1. Men have testosterone running through their veins. Combine this with a mental health crisis and you have a ticking time bomb. I have managed young men and women for years. I've worked on psychological work safety panels for more than a decade. Men are consistently both the best and worst performers. They are consistently the best and worst people to be around. And they are also consistently the most unpredictable. In my experience socio-economic status doesn't change this much. 2. Men commit suicide, and are victims of assault at a much higher rate than women. This is a fact. People dismiss this. I am not saying it as a "YEAH BUT" but rather as a factor to consider when trying to address the issue of domestic violence. Clearly there is correlation. 3. From a young age we are now stifling young boys by treating their masculinity - traditionally and biologically - as a societal threat. There is a reason why boys develop slower than girls and why men don't tend to hit their career peak until much later. 4. The traditional household has changed. The role of the mother and father has shifted. Traditionally, boys were nurtured by the mother, and "roughed up" by the father. By roughed up I don't mean that in a negative way. I mean rough play. Traditional roles are dismissed these days. Both parents work full time. The father nurtures. Most fathers here I bet will admit it's harder to comfort your kids than it is for their mother to no matter how we try. There is a biological bond that we are unnaturally trying to adjust and change. 5. We have created a narrative that the world *should* be safe. Yes of course it should be, but it's not. We are fixated on addressing the issue by pointing the finger at men and saying "fix it". My response to that is that I will not stand for my son ever laying a finger on a woman. But I will also say that there is evil out there. Protect yourself. Yes you should be able to walk alone at night and be safe. But that doesn't mean you will be. We need to educate on self defense. Because as a man I will say that men can be pretty bad. We're delusional to think we can change that short of a completely lobotomised male population.

McAdams, Bowey in Billings, Woey out. Although Wowoedin was solid last night.

Langdon is killing us atm lol

Man, Langdon gets caught ball watching too much.

Expected score... Melbourne - 67 Geelong - 36 How depressing.

Disco Turner last week: Saturday Night Fever Disco Turner this week: Dirty Dancing Havana Nights

I'm having 'Nam flashbacks to the 2023 semi final.

I admire that Goodwin has changed things up and bringing back chaos ball but I'm not sure we have the pace or firepower to beat Geelong like this. We need to slow it down and keep possession.

JHF has real Dangerfield vibes about him. And not from a playing perspective. From a "Has an opinion and wants to share it" perspective.

What if Seinfeld was set in Melbourne? Kramer: "I got tickets to the game, Jerry!" George: "To the ANZAC Day game?" Jerry: "Thomastown vs Whittlesea. He only watches local leagues." Kramer: "It's more real."